robots.txt Tester & Generator
Test your robots.txt rules against URLs and user agents, check AI bot access, or generate a new robots.txt from scratch with presets for WordPress, ecommerce, and AI blocking.
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What is this tool for?
The robots.txt Tester and Generator lets you validate your existing robots.txt rules, test which URLs are blocked for any user agent, check AI bot access, and build new robots.txt files from scratch with presets for WordPress, ecommerce, and AI blocking.
Why it matters for SEO
A misconfigured robots.txt can block Google from indexing your most important pages. or accidentally allow crawling of duplicate content, staging environments, and admin areas. With AI crawlers now accessing sites for training data, controlling which bots can access your content is a critical business decision.
Key SEO & AI elements it impacts
- Crawl budget optimisation. stop wasting Googlebot's time on low-value pages
- AI crawler access control (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot)
- Prevention of duplicate content indexing from parameter URLs and filters
- Protection of staging, admin, and sensitive directories
- Sitemap declaration for faster discovery of new and updated content
What to expect by fixing it
Fixing robots.txt issues can have immediate indexing impact. Pages that were accidentally blocked start appearing in search within days. Blocking low-value URLs frees up crawl budget, which can improve how quickly Google indexes your important new content.